Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. 80 percent of construction firms are having trouble hiring craft workers ( Associated General Contractors of America from August 2018 ).Today, billion into construction tech in 2018. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting. USA News ).Labor

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

That financing kicked off a period of accelerated growth for the company — from creating a compelling digital offering to acquiring a company three times its size to scaling to more than 250 locations across the country — that led CAVA to today: its public debut. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

Promoting Disruption. The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus attendees. Driven by his desire to inspire progress, Suhail started planning the FALAK Unreasonable Thinking Summit (UTS) in 2016. In 2017 there were 200 attendees.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

A wave of disruption of digitizing informal retail stores is sweeping across emerging markets this year, and Chari is joining in on the action. Omar El Kouhene and Mehdi Cherif Alami founded Freterium in 2018. Lemonade Finance (Nigeria). Chari (Morocco). Sophia Alj and Ismael Belkhayat founded Chari in 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In contrast to her future success in finance, Kelly Peeler’s early start as an entrepreneur began with flipping refurbished furniture at the age of 11. Peeler isn’t just changing the world of student aid, she’s also redefining the role of women entrepreneurs in finance and education. Kelly Peeler / NextGenVest. Hooi Ling Tan / Grab.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” Besides Riverwood, edtech-focused Owl Ventures (which led its $5 million Series A round last June), Endeavor Catalyst and Roble Ventures also participated in the financing.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Companies like Wise, Modulr, and Form3 have unlocked this capability for fintech and non-finance companies. In 2018, EU regulators enacted the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), which created rules for third parties to access payment account data. Establishing a clear standard for Open Banking In the U.S.,

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” In 2018, Crossworks Myanmar was born, initially intended to hire talent for Jeshua’s ventures. However, it quickly evolved into a platform facilitating remote team management for over 40 companies globally, providing job opportunities amidst the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Venture capital firms, which provide equity financing for early- and growth-stage startups, play a critical gatekeeper role, deciding which new technologies and technology companies will receive funding. In 2018, all-female founding teams received just 2.2% of all U.S.-based based venture funding. of all U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

generating more than 12 million tons of waste in landfills every year, according to 2018 data by the Environmental Protection Agency. billion in 2018. . Furniture is one of the largest waste categories in the U.S., The furniture resale industry is projected to reach $16.6 billion in sales by 2025 , from 9.9

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Image Credits: Wellthy Jurist-Rosner founded Wellthy in 2015 (the startup actually launched as a Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt that year ) to help others like herself who were juggling work and caregiving. Its latest financing was an up round, but Jurist-Rosner said that was not something the company was focused on.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

The financing comes just over six months after Flink raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Since its 2017 inception, the startup has raised nearly $70 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. A common theme with these partnerships is that all three organizations are investors in InstaDeep’s new financing round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

billion in 2018 to under $28 billion in 2020 as Western brands wrestled with pandemic-related border restrictions. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions. Fashinza’s B2B supply chain marketplace. ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The company that set out to create an atlas of the human immune system in 2018 had raised about $80 million by February 2021. This round, which was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Talos VC, 8VC, Alexandria Venture Investments, Piedmont, ICON, and others, brings the company’s total funding to $295 million. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

With this latest financing, Workrise has now raised more than $750 million. Its gross revenue has tripled since 2018, going from just under $300 million to about $900 million to close out 2020. You may know Austin-based Workrise better by its former name, RigUp. It currently has more than 600 employees in 25 offices.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. This includes storing money, sending and receiving payments, paying friends, budgeting their finances, and accessing capital via overdrafts and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Vega Founder Barney Mannerings launched the Vega project in 2018 with the mission of giving anyone the ability to create and launch a derivatives market. Vega disrupts the intermediaries traditionally controlling market creation, settlement, collateral management, and pricing in the derivatives market.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million. In 2017, Veev Group began to focus on prefabrication capabilities, and by 2018 it formally pivoted to what it described as “a vertically integrated developer focused on building innovation.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

I’ve been covering ICON since its $9 million seed round in October of 2018, so seeing the company reach this milestone less than three years later is kind of cool. . The financing brings ICON’s total equity raised to $266 million. The financing brings ICON’s total equity raised to $266 million. and around the globe.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

QED Investors, Wellington Management, Susa Ventures, Founders Fund, First American Financial, Prudence Holdings, Crossover VC, Intersect Capital, Gaingels and Oberndorf Ventures also participated in the financing. The San Francisco-based company declined to reveal at what valuation its Series C was raised.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Vine Pharmacy had 20 branches across Uganda when Abraaj took over and embarked on an aggressive growth plan that involved doubling its branches by 2018 – a feat it accomplished until the PE collapsed leading to the shutdown of several outlets. s development finance institution, last year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. More than 50%?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. Next36 focuses on supporting students and recent grads launching their startups, while Next AI supports AI-enabled ventures looking to disrupt industries. . Some schools run their own (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Homebound started out to help people rebuild after their houses were destroyed by California wildfires in 2018. Construction is massive in terms of financial, societal, and environmental impact with significant opportunity for innovation to disrupt and improve it in a myriad of ways.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Just as Covid-19 disrupted other aspects of our life, the early months of the pandemic saw a major freeze descend on the world of trading. The latest figures from the UK’s office of national statistics, from 2018, estimate that retail investors account for some 13.5%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . Therefore, the new financing will scale up operations in its existing 13 markets across Africa, where it has insured over 4.3 million farmers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

The latest financing brings Tessian’s total raised to-date to $120M+, and values the company at $500M, it said today. Prior to that it grabbed a $13M Series A in mid 2018. In Tessian, we found a best-in-class solution that automatically stops threats in real-time, without disrupting the normal flow of business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

TechCrunch covered that round , and the company’s $4 million seed round in 2018 , keeping tabs on the corporate spend-management company as it grows. With this raise, Teampay has now raised $21 million in known equity financing to date. I asked Hoag why the new round is not simply called a Series B.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Open banking — a new approach to payments and other financial services that disrupts traditional card-based infrastructure by linking directly into banks — is having a moment. but even here it’s relatively young: regulations only came into effect at the start of January 2018. million in 2018.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Vasilyev and Pinto worked together at Pinto’s last startup, Machinio, which was sold back in 2018. The two men launched a business around Vasilyev’s project in January and have raised $4 million in financing to support the commercialization of the project. WTF is GDPR? Pinto is undeterred. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The company has been profitable since 2018, and until January 2021 had been bootstrapped from inception, reinvesting its cash generation into growth and portfolio expansion, according to CEO and 2TM Group Executive Chairman Roberto Dagnoni. It’s also 11 times the volume experienced during the same period in 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” In 2018, the product was piloted as Wave in Senegal but it was still within the Sendwave ecosystem. Wave, however , wants to disrupt it. Since 2018, we’ve supported Wave because we were convinced mobile money is still an unsolved problem in Africa,” he said in a statement. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

The Series A funding comes after its 10x year-over-year revenue growth throughout the four years since its launch in 2018. “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space. ” .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

In an attempt to remedy that problem, São Paulo -based Kovi was founded in 2018 to give those people access to those opportunities. . Quona, GFC, Monashees, UVC Investimentos and Globo Ventures also participated in the financing, in addition to Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel through his family office.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

8VC, Tishman Speyer, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Michael Ovitz, DST, LeFrak and Kevin Hartz also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised since its 2018 inception to about $45 million. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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